T-Cell Illustration for Pint of Science

T-Cell Illustration for Pint of Science

We created a piece of art for Pint of Science which is an international organisation which brings together detailed science talks on a wide range of cutting-edge research, in an informal pub setting, with plenty of beer.

We used data from the Protein Data Bank to build an illustration showing the battle between a tumour and the immune system. The tumour has expressed proteins to suppress T-cell activity, but a synthetic drug (yellow) acts to block the receptors on the T-cells, meaning that the T-cells are not suppressed and are able to attack the tumour. This was created for Pint of Science, to accompany a talk in Cambridge.